AuthorSean Gibbons

Expand Self-Defense? Cue the Hysteria

For decades, opponents of the Second Amendment have relied on the same predictions every time Americans gain expanded access to lawful self-defense. According to anti-gun activists, each new reform is supposedly about to unleash “Wild West shootouts,” road-rage gunfights...

Why the Second Amendment Terrifies Authoritarians

Throughout history, authoritarian governments have feared one thing above almost all others: an armed population. Not because every citizen becomes a revolutionary. Not because rifles magically defeat governments. But because widespread civilian gun ownership changes the...